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Excerpt
Talliskynina
Right leg
first, left leg second, leg after leg, out of the bed.
Leg after
leg, back into the bed. Out of her bed,
back onto her back, Talliskynina played with her legs.
The
morning sunlight, shining through the curtain, created shadows of her legs on
the wall. Going in and out of her bed,
Talliskynina watched the images, smiling, going backward and forward, playing
with the morning shadow theater, as would she be deciding between sleeping
longer and going out to see the light of the sun from the other side of the
window.
From outside the window, from inside her world.
Suddenly,
her movements turned faster, as would a second be a half-second, increasing
time, trying to stay longer in bed, jumping out of the bed, jumping back into
the bed.
In and
out of the bed again, until…step after step, jump after jump, Talliskynina went
to the kitchen, and picked up some strawberries.
Strawberries
that were supposed to be for a cake.
She
walked into her mother’s Hug.
“Mom…can
I go out?”
“Talliskynina,
eat your breakfast first,” said her mother, pointing to a bowl with cereals on
the far end of the table.
Picking
up more strawberries and eating three strawberries between each spoonful of cereal,
the girl asked again:
“Moooommm,
can I go out now?”
“Talliskynina, take care and please be back before lunchtime…the streets can be
a dangerous place to be. A street is a
place to walk over, to use to go somewhere, not a place to stay around for too
long.”
No word about the stolen strawberries, or too many strawberries; Talliskynina’s
mother was already used to preparing more, knowing her kid’s passions.
Going out
of the safe walls, out of her mother’s safe embrace, Talliskynina prepared
herself for the street jungle. One hand
on the door frame, a quick look outside, a slower look inside, a quick look
outside again until, one foot after another, jumping backward and forward
between inside and outside the house.
Until
she,
Suddenly
Jumped to
the outside side of the door, as would there be a trampoline, running to the
street as would she be a swimmer swimming against the current of her fear,
screaming:
“B…buuuu”
It wasn’t
even a “BUUU” but only a little “buuu” like only a lovely eight-year-old girl can
do. “For me the street is a place to be
so long as I can. B…buuuu.”
Most people
passing by did not notice her, as she, after a few steps, stood on the walkway,
trying to make the scariest grimace she could ever do. Which means, not scary at all, out of her
imagination. The few ones noticing her
smiled, thinking she was an adorable girl, while she whispered more to herself
than to the world:
“I’m a
monster…I’m so ugly and scary, people please run away from me. You will all be scared to death if you come
closer or try to touch or steal me… buuuu.”
Talliskynina
stood there on her skinny legs on the top of her eight years of age, believing
her grimaces would protect her from the scary outside world.
Protect
her from all the bad people living outside the house in a dangerous place
called the street. A place she loved to
be.
“Hi
little girl, how are you?” asked a woman who wasn’t a real stranger, but the
owner of a grocery shop around the corner where Talliskynina use to go with her
mother from time to time.
Feeling
scared, the girl ran away, figuring out how to make uglier grimaces the next
time, to avoid people speaking to her. Dangerous
people. But inside of her, she liked the
supermarket woman and whispered, “Hi, I’m fine. How are you?” while running
back home as fast as she could. Going
out again only after making her hand full of strawberries and some checking on
how to make better grimaces in the bathroom mirror.
***
She tried
to scare people away but it never happened that someone would run away from
her... Her grimaces never scared people or protected her from knowing them.
Or scared
away her interest in knowing them. The
problem or the solution was, she liked people.
She was too curious not to start conversations herself
and when people spoke to her, she at first whispered and ran away, but with
time passing by, she answered more and more to people. And she carried on making her grimaces until...
...
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